Police Drama Quotes

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at Warner Brothers. I did 40 hours of color television with the late Robert Taylor as a young cop.

I'm really looking forward to Rohit Sir's film 'Sooryavanshi.' I'm a big Rohit Shetty fan and also Akshay Sir is in it.

'Infernal Affairs' is really amazing and was a really popular movie. I would be fine with playing any character in the movie.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

I've been saying for about 20 years, 'When am I going to get my cop show?'

I was on 'The Shield,' which I was a fan of.

When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget is much smaller, and a returning cop series would take away from the Stephen Poliakoff/David Hare stuff that they love to commission.

I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

I watched 'The Shield.' That was a big show for me.

I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too.

I think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show.

Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.

It's hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But 'Rookie Blue' has a pure emotional center that's not cynical.

'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.

The most credible police shows I've ever seen were 'Barney Miller' on TV and 'The French Connection' movie. They showed the tedious side of police work.

'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.

'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of 'Hill Street Blues' that day.

I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie.